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The likelihood that Congress is going to take advice from the "debt" commission on cutting defense to balance the budget is less than zero.

The administration's own review, the Quadrennial Defense Review, spent years and all the analysis of the experts at the Pentagon to figure this out, and frankly, the Pentagon pulled its punches on what the top line ought to be. An independent commission of defense experts chartered by Congress has as much as said so. So now these guys try to balance to budget by making us even more less safe -- not a chance.

Heritage recently outlined over $300 billion in cuts in 2012 and did not have to shave the top line of the defense budget.

Defense is not just another category of spending that accounts can throw on the table. Providing for the common defense is a fundamental and non-negotiable responsibility of government. This is not what Americans voted for when they sent a message to Congress. They want to turn off runaway government, but they also want a military that can send men and women into harm's way armed with what they need and an armed forces that can protect its citizens.

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